Hat and coat rack.



No. 827,551. I PATENTED JULY 31, 1906. H. S. MILLS.

HAT AND GOAT RACK.

PATENT FFICE.

HARRY S. MILLS, OF KEOKUK, IOI/VA.

HAT AND COAT RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1906.

Application filed November 27,1905. Serial No. 289,256.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY S. MILLS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improve ments in Hat and Coat Racks, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in hat and coat racks, the objectbeing to provide a simple device for application to a wall, a wallrack,a church-pew, or the like for supporting a hat and coat or a hat only,as the case may be, a secondary object being to provide a devicewhich'may be made of light material at a small initial cost and which atthe same time will be effectual in the performance of its functions.

With these objects in view my invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations of parts, which will behereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of afragment of an ordinary hat-rack, showing the lower end thereof with myimproved hook for suspending a hat and coat attached to its lower end.Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the frame and shows the hook inside elevation; and Fig. 3 is an illustration of another eXemplificationof the invention, it being shown attached to the back of a church-pew.

My improved device is preferably com posed of a sin le piece of wirebent at or near the center to form an inturned hook 1 in theconstruction shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Thence the wire is given areturn-bend at 2 2 and extended downwardly to form the main body portion3 3 and from there upwardly to produce the upwardly-extending horns 4 4,and between the hook 1 and the horns 4 4 the brim B of the hat H isheld, as indicated in dotted line in Fig. 2.

In the form of device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 from the horns 4 4the ends of the wire are turned backwardly aad downwardly and thenceoutwardly to form the coat-hook 5, and the extreme ends are brought backparallel, as at 6, and bent to form the eyes 7 7, which receive screws 88, by means of which the device is either fastened to the wall,woodwork,

or a suitable rack R, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In Fig. 3 the device ispractically the same as the upper portion of the construction shown inFigs. 1 and 2, which means that the lower hook 5 is omitted, and theextreme ends of the wire are bent to form eyes 9 9, which are secured byscrews or other means to the lower edge of a block or similar support10, secured to the back of the pew P.

F rom the foregoing it will be seen that a very simple inexpensivedevice is fashioned from a single piece of wire and given the functionshereinbefore specifiednamely, of holding a hat-brim and likewise thehangingloop of a coat in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and a hat-brimalone in the slightlydifferent construction shown in Fig. 3.

Of course various forms of hooks are now on the market for supportinghats and coats; but the essential element of this invention is toprovide means for engaging a hat-brim at both edges, thus lessening theliability of its accidental displacement .and at the same timepermitting the hat to hang down out of the way and as close as possibleto the support to which the rack is attached. 1

It is evident that slight changes might be resorted to in the form andarrangement of the several parts described without departing from thespirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limitmyself to the exact construction herein set forth; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a hat and coat rack composed of a singlepiece of wire bent at the center to form the downwardly and inwardlyextending hook 1, thence the return-bends 2, 2, the main portion 3, 3,the latter being spread apart, the upwardly-extending horns 4, 4, andterminatin at the ends in the eyes 9, 9, by which the i511; and

coat rack is secured in place, the horns 4, 4,

projecting toward the inner end of the hook 1, and the hook extendingoutwardly some distance beyond the vertical plane of the horns 4, 4.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD M. HAGEL, ARTHUR H. MOORE.

